Word: uhse
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Note, however, that the administrative board does not ask, Why are so many people sicking out?" Dr. Walter Jackson of the University Health Services (UHS) said two weeks ago that few of those who took medical excuses from exams were, in fact, malingerers."
"As far as I know, there have been no cases (of frostbite) reported at UHS (University Healty Services) today or yesterday," Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, said yesterday.
The increase, from 456 to 528 students, conforms with a fairly steady rise over the last five years, Rhoda Neidorf, medical records administrator for UHS, said yesterday. Five years ago, during the 1973-74 midyear exam period, only 149 students "sicked out."
"People have more of an attitude that they have to be in 100 per cent shape to take an exam than they used to have," Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, said yesterday. "A few years ago, they would have gritted their teeth and taken the tests," he said.
Wacker also said that UHS plans no changes in its system of granting medical excuses. He said that the reforms discussed in the Faculty Council "might be a way of bringing things back to where they were.